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Yashwant Sinha said demonetisation was a disaster and that GST was poorly implemented.

P Chidambaram and Arvind Kejriwal praised his op-ed

In a series of tweets, Chidambaram today slammed Jayant Sinha's defense of the Modi government

Far from heading towards the "hard landing" his father Yashwant Sinha predicted, the "robust new economy" created by the Narendra Modi government "will power long-term growth and job creation for 'New India'," Minister of State Jayant Sinha has written in a leading national newspaper.

Jayant Sinha's rebuttal is a response to "several" recent articles, but it comes a day after another national daily carried Yashwant Singh's scathing critique of the Modi government - and Arun Jaitley in particular. (The National Herald claims, citing government sources, that a "livid" Centre asked him to write a response to his father's piece.)

"Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) claims that he has seen poverty from close quarters. His finance minister (Arun Jaitley) is working over-time to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters," he wrote.

As for Jayant Sinha, he thinks some recent articles "draw sweeping conclusions from a narrow set of facts, and...miss the fundamental structural reforms that are transforming the economy."